VMware vSphere 8.0 VCP-DCV 100% Hands-on Lab Demo Videos | Udemy

About This Course

Are you the kind of person who learns best by doing? Do courses with nothing but Power Point voice-overs leave you cold? Are you looking to challenge the VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this course is for you.

This course offers 16+ hours and 96+ videos in 23+ Sections of of me demonstrating and explaining all of the major features, installation tasks and administrative tasks you need to master VMware vSphere 8.0. In this course, I’ll show you how to build, configure, administer, run, and scale vSphere 8.0 from scratch. I’ll also show you how to deliver better than 99.99% VM service availability.

This course consists exclusively of 100% Hands-on Lab demos videos of a live VMware vSphere 8.0 installation. I’ll take you from first-principles (powering on a new server) to a completed, working Compute Load Balancing / Failure Recovery cluster and everything in between. And, this course will provide you with the knowledge and hands-on skills you need to successfully challenge the VCP-DCV exam.

What Does This Course Cover?

Basics: ESXi, vCenter installation, configuration
Networking: Introductory, advanced vSwitch networking, jumbo frames, pNIC teaming, dvSwitches
Virtual Machines: Build, configure, right size, deploy, VMware Tools snapshot, hot-plug vHardware
Rapid VM Deployment: Guest OS Customization, cold clone, hot clone, rapidly deploy
Storage: NFS, iSCSI, VMFS, Multipathing, Capacity Management, Raw Device Maps, Content Libraries
Administration: ESXi and vCenter permissions. Infrastructure monitoring with Alarms
Compute Resource Management: Resource Pools, vApps, VM Cold Migrate, VM VMotion, VM Storage VMotion, DRS clusters
Maximize VM availability: vSphere High Availability clusters, Fault Tolerant protected VMs

I’ve organized this course into Sections – that focus on the most important vSphere 8.0 topics. Each Section has one or more step-by-step Hands-on Lab demo video(s)… with voice overs to explain what I am doing and why. I cover best practices, things to watch out for, issues / concerns, bugs in VMware’s software and much more.

There are 6 free-preview lectures (first lecture of Sections 1-6) offering over 70 minutes of free content. I encourage you to watch these lectures to see if this course is for you. You also get a free sample of our vSphere 8.0 Boot Camp Lab Guide PDF ebook.

How to Use This Course

If you are new to vSphere, or are wondering how all of the vSphere pieces fit together, start at the beginning to see how it’s done. If you are more experienced, jump to the Section that covers exactly the topic you need to know.

The nice thing about this approach is that you can use it for many purposes:

• Learn how to install, configure and administer a complete, working vSphere 8.0 system
• Use individual Sections or lessons to learn how to do specific tasks (perhaps before you do them at work)
• Compare what I’ve done in my environment to your environment to see if there are vSphere features that you could be using
• Review your installation. Is it well designed and well implemented? Is it configured consistently? Is it scalable? Is it redundant?
  These are critically important questions. Use this course to get the answers

What Does This Course Cover?

Basics: ESXi, vCenter installation, configuration
Networking: Introductory, advanced vSwitch networking, jumbo frames, pNIC teaming, dvSwitches
Virtual Machines: Build, configure, right size, deploy, VMware Tools snapshot, hot-plug vHardware
Rapid VM Deployment: Guest OS Customization, cold clone, hot clone, rapidly deploy
Storage: NFS, iSCSI, VMFS, Multipathing, Capacity Management, Raw Device Maps, Content Libraries
Administration: ESXi and vCenter permissions. Infrastructure monitoring with Alarms
Compute Resource Management: Resource Pools, vApps, VM Cold Migrate, VM VMotion, VM Storage VMotion, DRS clusters
Maximize VM availability: vSphere High Availability clusters, Fault Tolerant protected VMs

How Will You Benefit From This Course?

If your goal is to get VMware VCP-DCV certified, use this course to:

• Learn how to perform all major vSphere 8.0 tasks
• Test your knowledge and experience against core vSphere 8.0 tasks
• Supplement your work experience to ensure you are ready to successfully challenge the certification exam

If you are new to vSphere 8.0, use this course to:

• See tasks in the order they are normally done to build out your vSphere environment
• See how to complete each task, step-by-step
• Get detailed explanations as you go help build knowledge

If you are experienced with legacy versions of vSphere, use this course to:

• See how to complete 90+ tasks in vSphere 8.0 using VMware’s Host Client and vSphere Client
• Learn about new vSphere 8.0 features and capabilities

If you are an experienced vSphere administrator, use this course to:

• Use this course to quickly upgrade your skill set to vSphere 8.0
• Use this course as a vSphere 8.0 how-to-do-it reference guide
• Go directly to advanced topics that you need to learn now
• Review / refresh yourself before you perform tasks in production

Your Ultimate VMware vSphere 8.0 How-to Reference Guide

Go to any section whenever you need to review or brush up on your skills on how to get the job done. See exactly, step-by-step how to complete each task. Note the best practices, tips or pitfalls I explain while I’m taking you through each task.

Caveats

This course consists of 100% hands-on lab demo videos. It does not include access to live labs.